Moodle Demonstration Site
Visit the demonstration site to experience editing in the Moodle environment.Go to the English section, and select any of the moodles there. Note: This is now Moodle 2.0, so the environment may look slightly different from your environment.
Task 1: Identify the various features of the Moodle course and become familiar with the environment:
How is it organized?
What kinds of activities are present?
What kinds of resources are present?
What visual cues are present?
Task 2: Let's Edit! You will have to login (upper right corner; teacher - demo)
Are you the self-paced, teach yourself kind of educator? Then check out these two resources.
Dynamic Getting started for teachers is an online guide on Moodle's website that has documentation and directions hyperlinked - you can work at your own pace with this information. Return here in the future!
We will do the following together during our time together.
Tasks:
1. Log in to your Moodle site; click on your name to update your profile.
2. Find your course: check the settings for the course. This will include the enrollment key!
3. Add resources and activities
4. Communication Tools
a. 2 Minute Tutorials - scroll down to the orange labeled "third batch" of tools
b. Moodle: Creating an online course - scroll to topic 6, Communication and Collaboration Tools
Advanced users: Lesson module and lesson video tutorial:
Intro to Moodle
Exploring Moodle
Moodle Demonstration Site
Visit the demonstration site to experience editing in the Moodle environment.Go to the English section, and select any of the moodles there. Note: This is now Moodle 2.0, so the environment may look slightly different from your environment.
Task 1: Identify the various features of the Moodle course and become familiar with the environment:
- How is it organized?
- What kinds of activities are present?
- What kinds of resources are present?
- What visual cues are present?
Task 2: Let's Edit! You will have to login (upper right corner; teacher - demo)Alternate Moodle Demonstration site: Mount Orange School
Are you the self-paced, teach yourself kind of educator? Then check out these two resources.
Dynamic Getting started for teachers is an online guide on Moodle's website that has documentation and directions hyperlinked - you can work at your own pace with this information. Return here in the future!
Moodle Basics: Collaboration and File Sharing is a moodle that focuses on how to what moodle is, how to build it, and then integrate collaborative features; or try this Moodle features demo course - http://moodlecommons.org/course/view.php?id=27
Building your Moodle
We will do the following together during our time together.Tasks:
1. Log in to your Moodle site; click on your name to update your profile.
2. Find your course: check the settings for the course. This will include the enrollment key!
3. Add resources and activities
4. Communication Tools
a. 2 Minute Tutorials - scroll down to the orange labeled "third batch" of tools
b. Moodle: Creating an online course - scroll to topic 6, Communication and Collaboration Tools
Advanced users: Lesson module and lesson video tutorial:
How to Set up the Moodle Gradebook
How to Configure and Use the Moodle Gradebook (PDF)Grades in Moodle
How to Create a Moodle Quiz - Simplified!
Alternate URL - hosted at MoodleTutorials
Convenient links from Moodle support docs:
Question Bank
Question Types
Editing a quiz
Effective Quiz Practices
Tutorials
Ann Thorp's Moodle Screencast Tutorials
Ingham ISD tutorials
2 Minute Moodle Tutorials
Moodle Courses you can download and modify for your use
Florida Virtual High School courses available for adaptation to teachers in Michigan
Moodle Commons
Evaluation